:The worst part is, probably the blood issue. We are told not to murder. If someone was about to fall off a cliff and we could save them but chose not to would we not be bloodguilty? So, then, if it comes down to the blood issue being a life and death matter wouldn't it have to be at the very least a conscience matter? For me, I would rather disobey a law and obey a much higher principle of the life in which Jehovah has given us! I told this to my husband and he said that he has had a problem with the blood issue ever since the let you take components. I agreed and asked him "how many people do you think died because they weren't aloud to make up there on minds on the matter?"
As gopher has pointed out, blood is supposed to be the symbol of life. How then is a mere symbol more significant than the life it can save? Why should a symbol prevail when that nearly "worshiping" that symbol causes needless deaths to tens of thousands of lives?
If you haven't studied the subject, I urge you to do so. You will find that just about every blood part and fraction is allowed to be taken according to WT doctrine these days. They just cannot be taken all at once! Is that ridiculous or what? So if you took one fraction, then after that took another fraction, and after than another fraction, etc., the WTS has no problem!
It is plain to many of us that the GB has wanted for years to remove the blood ban. But if they did this they would be swamped with lawsuits from members and former members who needless lost loved ones over a pitiful policy that no longer existed.
What does that tell you about those men? I'll let you know what it tells me: they would rather go on sacrificing lives of adults and babies than face lawsuits that would drain their resources.
Re-read Matthew 23 and think about this.
best wishes,
Farkel